Final Fantasy X is the first Final Fantasy to come out on the Playstation 2, and it boasts some of the best graphics and sound on any console ever. It is the first Final Fantasy and the first big budget game by Squaresoft that reaches into the 128 bit consoles.  

    In Final Fantasy X you start out as Tidus playing in a blitzball game. As the game proceeds a great entity known as Sin approaches the stadium destroys it, and causes a portal to open up in the sky over the city of Zanarkand. As you move along you meet up with a familiar person, Auron. You eventually get sucked into the portal and start “your story” in the parallel dimension of the planet Spira. 

    The graphics are well polished and smooth around the edges (very little artifacting and jittery lines around polygons). At some times though on some spells like Holy part of the graphic or character etc. kind of disappears underground, but hey no game is perfect.  

    With the music you have quite a mixed bag. Some songs are technoish, some are orchestrated (with just a synthesizer, but a good one), and some are beats and soft instruments, mostly for dungeons and stuff like that. Nobuo Uematsu has two new helpers doing the scoring with him so the music is nice and fresh.  

    The sound effects are great. Unlike previous games, X actually uses real ones, not mouth noises! The Aeons (summon monsters) actually make thuds and stuff that sound real. The voice acting is good but not great. Most of the time its pretty good but sometimes you just think like “Tidus you sounded like an idiot just now!”, but it’s excellent in all compared to most other games.

     All in all I think that Final Fantasy X is the best one yet (unless FF VI got completely remade of course). It’s a very smooth operating and easy for beginners. I give Final Fantasy X a 9.0 out of 10.0

Review by - Alex of Burg